From the Ashes

• Switched over to using GitHub release.
• Changed download link from BoxSync to using http://go.illinois.edu/r-macos-clang-pkg, which redirects to the project's release page.
• Added bumper to README.md that emphasize release of the new macOS R toolchain installer: https://github.com/coatless/r-macos-rtools

Signed installer for R on macOS

• Featured in this update is a signed installer.
  • Previously, users had to check either the MD5 hash or the SHA256 hash of the installer to determine if it is genuine.
  • Nowadays, the installer can be verified as genuine by the lock icon in the upper right corner since the installer is signed with development credentials.
  • Financial support was provided to sign the installer by Professor Timothy Bates of the University of Edinburgh.

Pathing Update for Different CXX Standards

Bug Fix

• This is primarily a bug fix to resolve $CXX not being set appropriately.
  • To address this, the location of the compiler is explicitly filled in for each CXX** standard.

README corrections

BUGFIXES

• Corrected heredoc in README
• Updated SHA 256 of installer

Pathing update

Features

• Intelligently detecting if LDPATHS already contains: -L/usr/local/clang4/lib
• Setups compiler redirect for C++ standards outside of C++98 (e.g. CXX**) to use CXX.

clang4 binary installer for R on macOS

Features

• GUI Installer
• Unpacks a set of pre-made binary files into the /usr/local/clang4 directory
• Sets the proper paths for CC, CXX and LDFLAGS in the ~/.R/Makevars file.